Wallace v. Loomis’s Empirical Analysis
97 U.S. 146 · 1877
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 15 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1991 · most notably Barton v. Barbour (1881), Union Trust Co of New York v. Illinois Midland Ry Co Borg (1886)
42 federal appellate · 15 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 16 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a power to be exercised with great caution; and, if possible, with the consent or acquiescence of the parties interested in the fund.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.